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Moar on 23andme and governments owning your DNA; "anonymizing DNA has proved impossible"
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/01/whos-keeping-your-data-safe-dna-banks-261136.html
https://archive.vn/aVRgB
The government owns your DNA. What are they doing with it?
BY SUSAN SCUTTI ON 07/24/14 AT 3:50 PM EDT
Newborns since 1963 (and possibly earlier) have been tested for genetic disorders via a blood spot from the heel. The data is then aggregated and used for undisclosed research purposes. MA began testing in 1963. Today all 50 states and DC "routinely screen newborns for at least 30 genetic conditions, with some states testing for nearly twice that number." "Now 43 states allow parents to decline the screening process based on religious beliefs or philosophical reasons."
"23andMe has…suggested that its longer-range goal is to collect a massive biobank of genetic information that can be used and sold for medical research and could also lead to patentable discoveries." This characterization is not denied by 23andMe, which tells Newsweek, "The primary mission of our company is to accelerate genetic discovery."
The real money, then, isn't selling you a health analysis; it's in using and selling your data for biomedical research.
The state screening programs and the Newborn Screening Translational Research Network also de-identify newborn baby blood spots before loaning them out to researchers, but so far truly anonymizing DNA has proved impossible.
"Right now we don't know a way to guarantee anonymity from the technical aspect," says Yaniv Ehrlich, a computational biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Your child's DNA, then, might easily move out of the state newborn databases and into research programs where it might be used for purposes you never intended, or even imagined.
DNA databanks enable patentable discoveries…enabling big pharma for the "cures" of "illnesses" that were manmade? Google announcing that they are going into pharma...coincidences?